While this isn't for me as I don't use iOS daily, I wanted to say that I'm impressed with your response to feedback.
And, for what it's worth, I saw the landing page on desktop and it felt nicely done, and the animations had a purpose.
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And, for what it's worth, I saw the landing page on desktop and it felt nicely done, and the animations had a purpose.
Going in, I'd imagined the best possible outcome. This, of course, didn't bear much relationship to what followed.
No doubt some people would have steeled themselves first given more information. (And perhaps been more stoic!)
I couldn't find out whether the author has actually spent time with tribal people in the Amazon, but it's hard to credit.
At its core, however, everything just 'clicked', the templating works beautifully, and single-file-components are superb. I'll write React and Ember when necessary, but coming back to Vue is always a welcome relief.
I've lost count of the number of times I decided to start off writing what felt 'right' intuitively, and found things just worked first time. In that sense at least, there are echoes of Rails for me.
I set up an Arduino-based programmable logic controller to manage the fogging and primary heating circuits for our commercial greenhouse, with a separate Node.js-based server component that handles only Arduino configuration changes, logging and alerting and it works beautifully. The idea of having a full Linux machine (especially in a RPi form factor) running the process control functions would be a bit scary.
Still, the capabilities here seem so far beyond what you could do with a single PLC that it's very impressive and I can definitely imagine using it for something non-critical, or with multiple hardware backup systems.
Now I wonder if it's this law that made it not worth the effort for them.
As a commodity, vanilla prices are highly volatile, and while you could perhaps make this work in some years, it's hard to see it being viable in the long term.
As the cured beans keep well and are easy to transport, it's not entirely clear to me what the value proposition for greenhouse growing near to the final market really is.
An action can be taken against the initial party for breach of contract, of course, for whatever good that does, but that the seeds are now free of the contractual obligations.
If an entity receives the seeds without the contract attached, it can hardly be considered to have agreed to the terms. The providing party may be in breach of contract, but there's no way to bind the receiving entity. A single 'rogue' link in the chain makes it all meaningless.
Of course, a variety would have to be truly spectacular for any company to take the effort and PR risk to get involved in that kind of shenanigans, so this approach may have some practical, if not legal, efficacy.
Ironically, a potentially stronger way to enforce the license terms would be to... patent the varieties. It's a quagmire of varying rules internationally, though, and there are some exemptions for the use of protected varieties in further breeding of varieties that could then be protected and subject to less 'free' terms. Plants won't ever be subject to the GPL.
I'm very sympathetic to the project's aims, but even on a purely ethical basis there is room for argument. If we want more plant varieties to be produced to tackle humanity's next challenges (and... we do), should we not be encouraging companies to make very significant, long-term investments in breeding efforts? It's hard to see how that can happen without some kind of time- and scope-limited intellectual property rights, even if the systems we have now aren't ideal.
As with any transplant, I'd say it might be helpful to prepare yourself for the fact you'll have someone else's body part (I'll be celebrating my cornea's centenary before that long).
And don't have huge expectations for the result -- I can't comfortably read a book with my operated eye, though no doubt the vision would be acceptable with contacts. They're such a pain and the vision in my unoperated eye is still good enough that it's better to rely mostly on that eye than bother with them.
I still won't drive in the dark, won't play contact sports and my eyes get tired fairly easily, but overall it was a big win and I'd go for it again in a heartbeat. Good luck!
I live two hours north of Albi; local towns have free parking over lunch, so restaurants throng nearly every day of the week. Town center parking is free all day on Saturday, which attracts thousands of people, both locals and visitors, to the thriving market.
The result is that not only are there no empty shops in town at all, and café culture is alive and well, but twice a week the towns are packed with several hundred market stalls. It's really very remarkable.
Of course, tourism makes a lot of this viable; our town of 8,000 people has over a million visitors each year. But France more generally is a world champion at this, with 10% more visitors than the USA, 30% more than Spain and the better part of three times as many as the UK.
That said, when an SPA is called for I'd far rather use Ember and get routing, state and a hundred other things for free, without needing to bolt together an entire front-end framework from parts each time.
I couldn't immediately find a DOI for this -- it's possible, of course, that it's unpublished (it sounds like PhD work). That would be useful to know, too, though.
It rose by $0 in the US.
A base spec 13" MacBook Pro (Retina) was $1299 in the US on Wednesday. It's now $1299.
Now that may or may not be entirely due to Brexit, but price inflation is a real thing nonetheless right now in the UK, and signs are it's about to get a whole lot bigger.
- our landlord wanted to see a tax return from the previous year and three months' bank statements. No guarantee required. Our tenancy is for three years, before which the landlord cannot terminate it, but we can with 3 months' notice at any time. Renting was easy and cheap, and comes with a great deal of security.
- our new bank wanted a LOT of information about us, and some 70 pages of documentation. But now it's set up I can email or phone them and get an instant response from someone that knows me and my family (and speaks fluent English to boot). Their online systems are considerably better than my previous UK bank's.
- Registering for self-employment was entirely online and took 20 minutes.
- I fill out a social security return quarterly, which takes ~45 seconds, and all of the calculations are handled for me.
- We pay more tax than in the UK. But the state also pays for 85% of our childcare costs, and credits half of the remainder against our income tax bill.
- When I needed to check on our residence tax status, I rolled up at our local tax office where I was seen within 2 minutes by a friendly official who had immediately called all our details up on his computer, showed me what I needed to know and told me everything was in hand. (It was.)
It's not perfect. Being an employer is seriously not fun. Self-employment has its issues too. But it seems to be getting better, and by and large the systems work. (Probably because there are huge numbers of people running them.)
The only annoyance so far has been data migration between versions; the elimination of this is excellent news.
If you're considering taking Rethink for a spin, now is a better time than any before.
I found enough freelance work pretty much immediately to pay my bills, and didn't have to drop my rates. That said, my wife has a successful small business, and I have over a year's runway, so there's much less pressure.
It forced me to become more 'social', and attend meetups (including HN London) and other events. Although I'm getting some work through meetups, the major benefit is in staving off the loneliness you may get from working remotely/at home/from a coffee shop. Coming from working in a great team, my experience is this hits you hard.
Meeting lots of new clients and potential clients has been seriously fun. I wasn't expecting that. I even dipped my toe in Elance, which has been a surprisingly positive experience so far.
I've never been busier or more motivated. I wake at 5.30am but now walk the dog, make time for my wife and take time out to explicitly learn new things when I like, not when a schedule dictates. That alone was worth quitting. My advice, for whatever it's worth, is to be rigid about dedicating 'off' time. (No mobile!) Even just half a day a week has safeguarded my mental health so far, and it's very, very easy to skip it.
I've been able to work on my startup[0] a good three days a week, as well as launching a couple of other smaller side projects already. If possible, I strongly recommend having a big project so you feel like you've got an anchor, and can make forward progress whenever you're at a loose end and you might otherwise be checking HN.
Quitting full-time work has been the best decision I've ever made.
What is striking is how many of their friends and relatives died of outsiders' disease after making contact, and how fondly they spoke of their life before. When I spoke to them, some were considering leaving the village where they now live and returning to a life in the forest.
With regards to healthcare -- the health services offered to settled tribal and indigenous people in many places is poor to nonexistent. Amazonian tribal peoples have dozens to hundreds of medicinal plants, many of which have been proven to have active pharmacological properties. Some are now used in Western medicine.
It's clear they know the outside world exists. They have chosen not to engage. (To put it mildly.)
As an aside, there are more than 100 'uncontacted' tribes in the world. All of them know of the outside world; all have chosen -- for now -- not to interact directly with mainstream society.